Category: What’s in a Name

I like the Foo Fighters. So I named myself Fooey Fighter.

“Hey, that’s not how you spell ‘wraith.’ Why are you bad at spelling? Or are you just trying to be ‘Cool and Edgy ™?’”

This is what you are asking me through your phone or computer screen aren’t you? Ok, maybe not, but you could be. Well, to answer your actual, theoretic, potential, and/or non-existent question: I am neither of those.

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Before we begin to dissect the name “CombFiltered,” I’d like to quote probably the most famous person who has ever discussed my name – Major Nelson at Xbox. In an email exchange we had about it, he said, “That is not at all what I was thinking when we were chatting about it on the podcast. It’s original though, I’ll give you that.” You can listen to the ever entertaining trio of Larry Hryb (Major Nelson), Jeff Rubenstein, and Laura Massey discuss my gamertag on Major Nelson’s podcast and what they thought it meant. Spoiler: they weren’t even close.

Let the mystery build…

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We’re working on putting together some posts about our names and how they came to be. Some of our names may be obvious if you know us, and others…well…let’s just say they’re a little obscure. For now, what better name to start with than the biggest name of them all – The League of Extraordinarily Okay Gamers.

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